Upstate NY gunman advances on priest during service, then dies after restrained by churchgoers

INDIAN LAKE, N.Y. -- An autopsy is planned for a man who created a violent disturbance in an Upstate New York church and then died after being restrained by witnesses, police said.

Parishioners told the State Police that the man, identified as Jason Berg, 44, entered St. Mary's Church in Indian Lake in Hamilton County during an afternoon service Saturday. He reportedly shouted obscenities and threw objects at churchgoers and began advancing toward the church's priest before being restrained.

Berg was armed with a loaded pistol, police said.

Berg, a local resident, initially resisted the parishioners who sought to subdue and disarm him, but then he became unresponsive.